I’m either blind or there really isn’t any Hadena release on that list. Would it be possible to include at least one, regardless of the show? Your Hadena reviews are the most hilarious ones I’ve seen in a long time and I can never get enough of those~

Updated. I’m cutting out anything with under 10% of the vote and no competing groups. I presume nobody cares about those except for people who want to get off to my brilliant wit. And I have more than enough content coming up for that group.

Should be able to throw up two Watamote reviews tonight. Commie and FTW’s posts would best be served by reviewing them in parallel, so if I wanna do one, I’m basically forced to do the other at the same time.

Until then, I’m going to be working (because although it doesn’t seem like it, I do have a full-time job) or playing Dragon’s Crown with my local crew. 4p couch co-op FTW.

I think I did a better job than Commie. (Even if that’s not too difficult, as they’re mostly only D-Tier.)

Commie’s subs are littered with slang, localisation, changed names and terms and dumb nicknames (like “Iffy” and “Nappy”, err, “Neppy”.)
I’ve removed all that, fixed the translation where it was too far off (especially for the songs), added kanji and romaji with karaoke for the songs and finally also fixed Commie’s poor timing (there were numerous instances where they totally failed to hit the keyframes.)
I’ve also placed plenty of comments in the script, which you can have a look at.

I didn’t even know you were subbing this show. Does anyone else? Typically the fansub community revolves around Nyaa and TokyoTosho as the primary places to put their subs, so that’s where the most informed leechers would go for their subs. Self-promotion is important: having good subs alone and relying on word-of-mouth won’t get your release seen.

Also, DDL should only be used as a secondary method of sharing files. I don’t see any torrents for your release, which means when that DDL provider determined you’ve reached the max amount of downloads, people can’t get your subs. So always throw that shit up to torrents. If you’re not keen on torrents, contact me on IRC and I’ll set you up on my seedbox.

I’ve never claimed that (not everyone is an arrogant fuck, but I understand this concept may be somewhat alien to you), but I apparently still know more than you, Shimapan-kun. Good job on the whole “keyframe failure” fiasco too, talking like you know shit about timing and then being proven wrong by a bunch of people. Keep the entertainment up.

This was much more about pointing out the general attitude, especially if you’re using someone else’s script as base. If you have a beef with Commie, insulting them over using common conventions doesn’t seem like the best angle of attack.

Also, it was a deliberate set-up to allow somebody else to quote the “it’s asked too much” part.

Wow. Just wow. I do hope that guy’s not British (the whole z–>s change makes me suspicious) because otherwise I’m gonna have to go find him and kick him off my island. It’ll probably instantly raise the IQ of the UK by ten points.

Explains a lot. He doesn’t give off the air of being a native, and apparently doesn’t understand different punctuation styles in subbing (though admittedly I like end-line punctuation, I don’t think anyone who doesn’t have it is automatically Hadena-level :O).

Have you seen his profile pic?! It’s Kuroko Shirai! Who doesn’t like Kuroko Shirai?! She’s so muthafucking cute! Wait… Germans don’t like Kuroko Shirai? Well, sucks for them. They’re missing out on all the fun!

Shut your gob, chav.
If someone kicked you off the island, it’ll instantly raise the IQ of the UK by at least twenty points.
At the very least, someone should neuter all you chavs, so you don’t breed like rabbits anymore.

As I wrote on the About page (the “About PH” one, not the “About me” page), turning Commie-Subs into something watchable was the reason I started everything.
For the first three episodes, there was Mousou, producing at least bearable subs, but they became defunct. So I decided to pick up the banner, so to say, and started with ep. 4.

Hello, Captain Obvious!
Your reading comprehension is seriously lacking, isn’t it? (Well, if it wasn’t and you had at least half a brain, you probably wouldn’t be in a D-Tier crap group.)
It’s what I wrote in my post, as well as on the About page on my page.
If you had an at least half-way decent editor, there would be no need to clean up behind you.
You also should get yourself a timer that isn’t half-blind and doesn’t miss the keyframes half of the time.

Actually, I’m just going to explain it here because watching you bluff in circles for another five posts probably won’t be that entertaining.

The purpose of scene timing is to snap to scene changes. Scene changes can usually be identified by keyframes assuming you encode your keyframes correctly, but not all keyframes are scene changes, and not all scene changes are keyframes. This is aptly demonstrated by the following “corrected” line from your release:

Dialogue: 0,0:03:07.01,0:03:09.71,Default,,0,0,0,,I wouldn’t be so sure. {Yet another keyframe failure}

This line was correctly snapped to the following scene change in the [Commie] release (which I noticed with some amusement that you renamed to [Rednecks] on your computer), but when you made your “fixes”, you chose to extend it past the scene change in question and snap it to a “fake” keyframe in the following scene, resulting in a scene bleed. So a line which previously disappeared with the scene change now remains awkwardly onscreen for around 300ms after it, distracting the viewer.

Please learn how to time before you criticise the timing of others, because I’ve seen you do nothing but make a massive fool of yourself in every post you’ve made on every site you’ve been to.

Line should be snapped to scenechanges, which are not necessarily keyframes.

Keyframes are what are likely to be scenechanges according to encoder (as in x264 or Xvid). Most timers always use Xvid first pass log file as their keyframe base because most of the time it’s more accurate than x264’s.

Ergo, you fail at timing. Please actually read my post this time and understand that scene timing has an actual purpose behind it as opposed to being a fun game where the objective is to snap to all the purple lines for no particular reason.

Most of the keyframes your “corrected” version snapped to weren’t anywhere near scene changes, probably because you were dumb enough to use the inaccurate premux keyframes instead of making your own with scxvid.

I never claimed to be the “best timer” or anything. I just snapped anything to the keyframes in Aegisub where Commie had failed to do so.
If you want, you can check back my script in Aegisub. All lines fixed have been commented accordingly (22 timing fixes in total).

I don’t know whether these 10 fixes actually fixed stuff. I don’t have Commie’s release at hand, meaning I can’t check. But 12 mistakes are still way too much.

I have a script for geenrating keyframes. But I don’t use it for now since it eats at cpu, and I use my backup PC, which was bought in 2003 (meaning if I use it, it literally prevents me from using PC for at least 20 minutes). And it’s encoder’s responsibility to make keyframes.
(By the way, that mistake that Xythar pointed here: http://www.crymore.net/review_queue-summer-2013/comment-page-1/#comment-69185 was a legitimate mistake on your part. That means he was right.)

>Still, that means that 10 fixes (about half of them) were done right. Not too bad.

Generally speaking, there’s no “right” here. For example, if a line begins 300ms after a scene change, it’s up to the timer whether they’d rather snap it (and have 300ms leadin) or not snap it and have a reasonable amount of leadin. When I time things I usually snap if the line begins less than 200ms after a scene change or ends less than 500ms before a scene change, but it’s largely a matter of personal preference on the timer’s part.

The only things I’d consider wrong are ending/starting the line very close to a scene change (like within a few frames) or extending a line past a scene change.

My upload speed is bloody low, so doing torrents would be painful
File1 is one of the few decent hosters where even free users get full speed (and not a measly 50 KB/s like ul.to and co.), and who isn’t trigger happy with deleting files either, so no problems with people getting the files.

Shimpan is well known in the German fansub community. He’s running a subgroup called “Erokawaii” (and one called “Pantsu ga daisuki” but they’re apparently the same) and has been around for a long time now.

What makes him sorta “famous” is that he’s been sticking to the old German spelling (it has been revamped between 1996 and 2006 in case you didn’t know) and he even has a blog post on his site stating why the German spelling reform is so evil.

Wanted to do FLag’s review tonight but it’s another shitty fucking release that I have to spend a disproportionate amount of time on with pointing out all the stupid fucking issues. So it’s delayed till tomorrow as I get some sleep.

For anyone on the fence at this very moment, Vivid’s release is the one you should go with. I’ll back that up when FLag’s review comes out.

Will you(D_S or whoever) be linking to 8thsin’s translation reviews in the future?

Just asking because I noticed that was a thing previously and he has four translation scores / reviews and one translation analysis(comparison of Daisuki and Commie in-depth for Monogatari S2) up on his blog.

Well, he only has one review up for a series I don’t see myself talking about anymore. If he beats me to the punch on a show, sure, I’ll include a link to his site. I love 8th. But I’m not in the habit of editing old reviews for minor reasons, and I don’t plan to start now.

New posts rarely came on weekdays (monday-friday) in the past. The past 12 fansub reviews (not counting disqualification) have all been weekday posts. It’s funny how you’ve switched around your reviewing schedule this season.

I tried to make the compulsory->obligatory switch but TL didnt like it because there was a play on words later in the episode where the preisdent is trying to say its that but can only say con- instead of compulsory. Take it or leave it, in my mind the difference between the two words in english is very slim.